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- Matthew Countryman : Up South-Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
Until recently, most scholarship on the civil rights movement has viewed Black Power as largely an external ideological influence disrupting the sense of common purpose and goals within the civil rights movement. This paper draws on Dr. Countryman's recently-published history of the civil rights and Black Power movements in Philadelphia as well as other new scholarship on African-American social movements in the urban North to examine Black Power's emergence as an organic product of the experience of activists within the primarily integrationist and nonviolent post-war civil rights movement. Drawing on Michael Dawson's taxonomy of black political thought, he argues that Black Power activists turned to the black nationalist critique of racism's constitutive role in American society as a direct result of their experience of the limitations of the liberal program for redressing racial inequality in the U.S. He then traces the development of Black Power movement strategy and the tension between demands for community control over public institutions in the black community and calls for the creation of private black-only institutions. He concludes the paper with a brief examination of the difficulties faced by Black Power activists as they sought to sustain movement activism into the 1970s. Joy DeGruy Leary: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
January 16, 2007: Chapter 3: Crimes Against Humanity. Pgs 83-99 -------------------------- January 23, 2007 End of Chapter 3 Crimes against humanity. Pages 100-113 -------------------------- January 30, 2007: First Half of Chapter 4, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Pages 114-127. --------------------------- February 6, 2007:Second Half of Chapter 4, Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. Pages 127-143. --------------------------- February 13, 2007: Chapter 5, Slavery’s Children. Pages 144-159 --------------------------- February 20, 2007: Second Third of Chapter 5, Slavery’s Children. Pages 159-173. --------------------------- February 27, 2007: End of Chapter 5, Slavery’s Children. Pages 173-182. --------------------------- March 6, 2007 First Half of Chapter 6, Healing. Pages 184-200 ---------------------------
